Chapter 31: The Kingdom of the East

Returning from the former ruins of the Land of the Red Dragon, Nightnight enters the transit station in the middle and first sections of the Seris Path.

It is a city located at the lowest altitude of the Heavenly Mountains, more than 1,000 meters above the horizon, and over the years of operation has turned it into a large city with equal emphasis on commerce and military.

The population of the city is as high as 300,000, of which more than ninety percent are of oriental race.

The population of the Eastern World is still more than 50 million, and in order to better rule, the Blood Alliance countries have redivided sixteen provinces here, and each country has sent governors to manage it.

In today's Eastern world, Oriental scripts, Oriental languages, and all customs are forbidden, and millions of people are randomly selected as slaves every year, some of whom are sold to the Western Continent, and most of them serve as public servants for the governors and the Western Continent nobles who have settled here.

In order to prevent riots, neither the commoners nor the slaves of the East were allowed to possess weapons, and the offenders were punished as a fluke, and in this regard the governors learned the tricks of the Eastern rulers - Lianza and Zhujiu.

However, in terms of taxes, they were lower than in the eastern countries, so although life was hard, they could still get by.

What's more, a hundred years is enough time for the Blood God Church to penetrate the entire East.

In the last years of the Eastern Kingdom, in order to resist the invasion from the Western Continent, the taxes of various banks were adjusted to the maximum, and countless men were transferred to the battlefield, but in the event of a great drought and locust plague, the grain harvest failed, and the desperate peasants gathered to cause a great riot, so that the empire had to take out a part of it to suppress, and finally dragged down the twilight sunset empire under the two-front battle.

Entering the richest south of the empire in the past, the commoners lived the same life as usual, except that there were some more blonde and blue-eyed nobles on their heads, but they were fine with the dignitaries as before.

Moreover, with the reduction of taxes, people from all walks of life can ensure basic food and clothing, and everyone is very satisfied with such a life.

It's just that it takes a bit of effort to learn foreign languages and languages, but the governors promised to give a grace period of ten years, which is not unacceptable.

Walking through several cities a year, I suddenly found it in the night.

The collapse of the Eastern Kingdom and the colonization of the Blood Alliance will not affect the lives of the lower classes of civilians at all, it was oppression before, and it is also oppression now, is there a difference?

The so-called concept of the state and the concept of the nation have not yet taken shape, and in such a situation, these people cannot become a force for the restoration of the country at all.

Of course, there are also Fuguo organizations hidden in the shadows, but their actions are no different from gangs, and it is difficult to become a big climate, and they will naturally collapse after a long time.

As the Doges had said, in just ten years, everything in the East would be wiped out, and it would become the new breeding ground of the Blood God Church.

The Mad Prince's belief in the idea of restoration is vulnerable to reality.

This is the country of the East today, and this is the status quo.

When he returned to the former imperial city, now the largest city under the control of the Roman governor, the same feeling rose in the heart of the night. Anger, pain, sadness, and the most familiar ...... Despair!

All kinds of negative emotions came to my heart, so that Cangye couldn't deal with it for a while, and it took a long time to ease up, and his expression returned to his usual calm and indifference, but deep down, there were bursts of waves.

……

The layout of the old imperial city remained the same as before, with the outermost layer being the dwellings of slaves and commoners, the palace was kept uninhabited, and the area where the bureaucrats lived became the governor's palace and the residence of the nobles.

It is worth mentioning that many of the bureaucrats who had once been in the ranks of the Eastern countries had now become officials of the Governor's Palace, nominally receiving the title of knight, barely among the ranks of the nobility.

That is, with the existence of this group of people, the eastern country will be so peaceful today.

The third artifact is hidden in the ancestral temple, which is also the location of the altar that once worshiped the heavens of the Dragon Witch Secret Sect.

Of course, it has long since been demolished and has become the cathedral of the Eastern Church of the Blood God, with the Pope appointing a blood-robed bishop to preside over the affairs of the Eastern Church.

There is a church warrior regiment stationed near the church, the number of which is about 2,000 people, each of which is an elite in the secular kingdom, and once the template of a level 3 warrior/level 1 rider is completed, even if it is surrounded in the night, it is a dead end.

But soon, Nighty didn't need to worry about how to sneak into the church.

That night, a grand dinner was held in the Governor's Palace, and according to the management, the blood-robed bishop and the samurai chief and other high-ranking members of the order were invited.

As soon as the leader left, the rest of the church warriors went to various taverns and red light districts in twos and threes to be happy, and the defense left behind in the church was extremely lax, but this was also the result of the blood god's long-term prestige.

Soon, Nightshade escaped the vigil sergeant and infiltrated the church.

There was no one in the church except for a group of priests and an apocabot, and as instructed on the map, he sneaked into the storage room in the night, groped for a while on the ground, and found a pull ring.

When he pressed the mechanism, a wooden plank suddenly popped out in front of him, about half a person high, and behind the plank was a long underground passage.

Thanks to the traitors' guidance, the time for the destruction of the imperial city was far beyond the imagination of the royal family, and the mad prince only had time to kill all the royal ladies to avoid humiliation before he hurriedly broke through and left, and the Blood Alliance countries took the entire imperial city and everything in the palace without much effort.

As a result, the palace was not damaged much except by looting.

Maybe we should be glad about that.

After a while, the night gas torch reached into the passage, and the flame was only slightly dim but not extinguished, indicating that the air circulation in the underground passage had been restored.

After carefully moving the planks back to their original positions, Nightnight bent down into the narrow passage.

After crawling for twenty or thirty meters, Cangye touched a stone that raised upward, pressed it down hard, and there was a clicking sound from the whole passage, and it continued to slope downward, and the straight passage became a landslide.

Following the landslide, the night entered an empty secret room.

The walls are surrounded by egg-sized pearls of the night, emitting a ghostly light that dimly sights but not discernible directions.

In the middle of the chamber was a box identical to the one containing the Dragon's Leather Boots, and as expected, the third artifact, the "Invincible Hand Condensed with Claws", was hidden in it.

Open the box, and sure enough, a pair of scarlet bracers as red as blood and covered with hideous spikes appeared in front of Cangye's eyes.

The bracers wrap around the entire forearm, and the front end extends upwards to connect to the glove, made of the teeth of a real dragon, the dragon teeth are the spikes on the fist gloves, and the five fingers at the front end are connected to dagger-sized dragon claws, which can be extended in two sections to increase the range of the attack.

At the lower end of the bracer lies a crimson blade, sharpened with the longest dragon claw, ejected by gravity or inertia, extending up to 28 centimeters, a foot or so long, somewhat similar to the Hidden Blade used by the Assassins.

Item Name: ?? of the wrist blade

Item Type: Blade Catapult Bracer

Item Level: Tier 3 Enchanted Armament

Item description: A powerful creature suspected of being a dragon accidentally came to the lower planes and passed down the bloodline and three types of equipment made from its own scales, skins and minions, each of which is a first-order enchanted weapon, and after integration, it is a fifth-order enchanted suit.

Restrictions on use: Constitution 4, blood limit

Equipment Effects: Critical +2, Armor Piercing +2, Wound Tear, Continuous Bleeding, 5 Fire Damage (Sealed), 5 Lightning Damage (Sealed), 5 Poison Damage, Defense Level 1

In a way, this bracer can be used as both a protector and a weapon, and even if the level of both attributes is only a third-order enchanted weapon, it is enough to sell for a higher price than a fourth-order enchanted weapon on the black market.

Collect all three holy artifacts, and Cangye successfully forms a fifth-order enchantment set.

Item Name: ?? Creed (3/3)

?? of the armor

?? of Iron Boots

?? of the wrist blade

Item Level: Tier 5 Enchanted Set

Item description: A powerful creature suspected of being a dragon accidentally came to the lower plane, passed down the bloodline and three types of equipment made of its own scales, skin and minions, each of which is a first-order enchanted weapon, and after integration, it is a fifth-order enchanted suit.

Restrictions: Strength 4, Constitution 4, Agility 4, Spirit 5, Intelligence 5, Set Collection, Bloodline Limited

Set Effect 1: +1 for all attributes;

Set Effect 2: Dragon Vein Burst (Sealed): Activated when 50% of HP remains, temporary strength +4, constitution +4, agility +2, nerves are in a sluggish state when it takes effect, no pain will be felt, duration 60s, once a day;

Set Effect 3: Dragon's Blood Shield (Sealed): Active activation state, pay 10% health to condense a blood-colored full-body shield, which will not affect action, can be stacked, and can appear on up to five sides at the same time;

Set Effect 4: Life Absorption (Sealed), each attack has a 25% chance to absorb 15~45 HP from the opponent, when the HP is full, it can be temporarily stacked, and there is no limit to use.